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Auction 3 · Lot 1
Divrei Hapurim [translation of the Targum Sheni on the Book of Esther]
Hammer price $375
Auction 3 · November 25, 1997
Fine Hebrew Printed Books Duplicates from the Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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The season opened with the rare honor of handling the deaccession of duplicates from the Rare Book Room of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. The auction represented only the second time in its 100 year history that the Seminary has deaccessioned duplicates from its Library, known worldwide to be the most important repository of Hebraica and Judaica today. Respected members from private, academic, museum and library collections from around the world vied to outbid each other for the prestigious volumes new to the market. Anchored by the Seminary collection, 90% of the 337 lots in this auction found buyers.
Highlights included:
The Mishnah, with commentary by Moses Maimonides, Naples, 1489 which sold for $25,300.
Moses of Coucy's Great Book of Precepts — the first book printed by Gershom Soncino in the town of Soncino, 1488, fetched $27,600.
An extremely rare 16th century Hebrew Psalter, Mantua, 1571, brought $17,250.
An exceptionally rare first edition of Joseph ben Gorion’s Yossipon with Yiddish translation, full of finely wrought woodcut illustrations, said to be the most beautiful printed work in Old-Yiddish literature (Zurich 1546) sold for $8,625.
Lots in this auction
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Auction 3 · Lot 2
Sepher Hachinuch [exposition to the precepts]
Hammer price $250
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Auction 3 · Lot 3
Lev Aharon [commentary to the Books of Joshua and Judges, with text]
Hammer price $200
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Auction 3 · Lot 4
Pirush al Hatorah [commentary to the Pentateuch]
Hammer price $1,200
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Auction 3 · Lot 5
Mehararei Nemeirim
Hammer price $650
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Auction 3 · Lot 6
Avudraham [commentary to prayers]
Hammer price $1,800
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Auction 3 · Lot 7
Avudraham [commentary to prayers]
Hammer price $425
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Auction 3 · Lot 8
She’iltoth [Halachah as derived from the Pentateuch]
Hammer price $750
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Auction 3 · Lot 9
Avir Ya’akov
Hammer price $275
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Auction 3 · Lot 10
Sepher Ha’agudah [Halachic compendium based upon Talmudic decisions]
Hammer price $900
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Auction 3 · Lot 11
Vayakhel Moshe [homiletical sermons]
Hammer price $450
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Auction 3 · Lot 12
Ayelet Ahavim [Kabbalistic commentary to the Song of Songs, with text]
Hammer price $800
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Auction 3 · Lot 13
Shoresh Yishai [Kabbalistic commentary to the Book of Ruth, with text]
Hammer price $1,700
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Auction 3 · Lot 14
Me’ametz Ko’ach [sermons and eulogies]
Hammer price $200
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Auction 3 · Lot 15
Einei Moshe [commentary to the Book of Ruth, with text]
Hammer price $225
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Auction 3 · Lot 16
Masath Moshe [commentary to the Book of Esther, with text]
Hammer price $850
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Auction 3 · Lot 17
Devarim Tovim [commentary to the Book of Ecclesiastes, with text]
Hammer price $175
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Auction 3 · Lot 18
Chelkath Mechokek [commentary to the Book of Job, with text]
Hammer price $275
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Auction 3 · Lot 19
Shoshanath Ha’amakim [commentary to Song of Songs, with text]
Hammer price $325
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Auction 3 · Lot 20
Brant Shpigel [ethics]. Translated into Yiddish by Pinchas Heilpron
Hammer price $500
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Auction 3 · Lot 21
DIVREI HAYAMIM LEMOSHE RABEINU... [“Chronicles of Moses”]
Hammer price $750
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Auction 3 · Lot 22
SEDER OLAM RABA VESEDER OLAM ZUTA [Two Midrashic chronologies]. With Megilath Ta’anith and Sepher Hakaballah, etc. by Abraham b. David of Posquieres (RAVa”D)
Hammer price $400
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Auction 3 · Lot 23
TANA DEBEI ELIYAHU (RABA VEZUTA) [Midrash]
Hammer price $550
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Auction 3 · Lot 24